System Failure is the sixth episode of Season One of She-Ra and the Princesses of Power.
It was released on Netflix with the rest of the first season on November 13, 2018.
Synopsis[]
A recruitment trip to Dryl goes awry thanks to a virus that corrupts Princess Entrapta's robots. But when Adora's sword gets infected, wayward machines aren’t the only things they have to worry about.
Plot[]
Lightning flashes in front of the Crypto Castle. A baker drops a dollop of icing onto a tiny pig cupcake while a shadowy figure lurks behind her. Another lightning strike causes her to panic, and another worker came to help her clean. They are both surprised when a third worker put a drink on the tray the baker prepared. He clapped his hands, and a robot dropped from the ceiling, grabbing the tray.
Princess Entrapta's Castle in the Kingdom of Dryll.
It delivers the food and drink to Entrapta, who uses her prehensile hair to eat and drink. She is interacting with a First Ones' artifact, a Data Disk, using a fancy computer. She recorded a video message, appearing to be documenting her findings, saying this could contain the secrets of the First Ones. Red vines started growing out of the artifact, covering Entrapta's computer and turning the screens red. This sent out a blast and activated an alarm on top of the castle. Her robots' eyes turned red, and they started surrounding Entrapta. Entrapta exclaimed that the robots are responding to her code. The delivery robot broke her trash can, and threw it at Entrapta as she mused about making modern and ancient technology compatible. As a mass of robots gathered in front of her, she announced in her log that she is now going to run.
The scene changes to Adora, Glimmer, and Bow travelling towards Dryl to recruit Entrapta to the Princess Alliance. Upon arriving at Dryl they see the distress beacon, and She-Ra trips over one of Entrapta's traps but evaded it. There is some loud banging and one of the residents tells them to get out of the square. Then they are attacked by one of the infected bots. Glimmer and She-Ra fall into one of the traps, but Glimmer teleports them out. At the same time, Bow is rescued by the three people working in Dryl by taking him to the kitchen. Entrapta introduced herself to Glimmer and She-Ra.
Entrapta activates her giant cleaning bot with a hand clap, but then it attacks them. She-Ra destroys the bot, and when the Sword of Protection touches the infected bot the infection travels to the sword and causes She-Ra to go berserk. Glimmer wrestles the sword from She-Ra, who transforms back to Adora, leaving Adora in a stupor. They go to the lab but cannot get in since the door locks Entrapta out and booby-traps itself.
Baker, Soda Pop, Busgirl, and Bow defend the kitchen from the bots, which Bow's Tracker Pad attracted by making noise. They then make their way through Dryl and fight many bots. When the staff grow fearful, Bow gives a rousing speech, recruiting them into The Rebellion. All the heroes meet up and fight off many, many bots together in the halls of Dryl.
The heroes get into the lab, where the disk has built up a protective barrier and begins powering itself. Bow shoots the disk with his sonic arrow and the bots respond to the loud noise by attacking the arrow; the bots break the disk while assaulting the arrow. This uninfects all the bots, the Sword of Protection, and Adora.
Entrapta and the kitchen staff join The Rebellion, and Entrapta sets upon fixing the Data Disk while the Best Friend Squad return home.
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Transcript[]
See: System Failure/Transcript
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Trivia[]
- The mines of Dryl are mentioned, which first appeared in the original She-Ra: Princess of Power episode "The Price of Freedom".
- She-Ra herself is not directly infected by The First Ones' tech; the Sword of Protection is what gets infected by the Data Disk and passes the infection to She-Ra.
- The only way to fix She-Ra's infection is to destroy the Data Disk.
- This is the first episode in which the first character featured is not Adora.
- This is the first episode that doesn't take place in Bright Moon.
- This is the first episode where Catra doesn't have any lines.